Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
University of Toronto Press Chinese Science Fiction during the PostMao
Book SynopsisThe late 1970s to the mid-1980s, a period commonly referred to as the post-Mao cultural thaw, was a key transitional phase in the evolution of Chinese science fiction. This period served as a bridge between science-popularization science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s and New Wave Chinese science fiction from the 1990s into the twenty-first century. Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw surveys the field of Chinese science fiction and its multimedia practice, analysing and assessing science fiction works by well-known writers such as Ye Yonglie, Zheng Wenguang, Tong Enzheng, and Xiao Jianheng, as well as the often-overlooked techscience fiction writers of the post-Mao thaw. Exploring the socio-political and cultural dynamics of science-related Chinese literature during this period, Hua Li combines close readings of original Chinese literary texts with literary analysis informed by scholarship on science fiction as a genre, Chinese literary history, Trade Review"Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw should be commended for its innovative approach to China’s literary and cultural history." -- Yingying Huang, Lafayette College * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *"Li provides well-researched historical, comparative literary, and national policy contexts, and she explains tie-ins of fiction, comics, and small- and large-screen media productions." -- J. C. Kinkley, Portland State University * CHOICE *"This is a solid, rich and inspiring book that complements existing literature in many ways. It is recommended to readers with interests in twentieth-century Chinese literature and popular culture, as well as students of world science fiction." -- Qiong Yang * The China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Field of Chinese Science Fiction, 1976–1983 2. A Study of Zheng Wenguang’s Mars Series 3. A Scientific Holmes in Post-Mao China: Ye Yonglie and His Science Fiction Thrillers 4. Tong Enzheng and the Motif of Alien Invasions 5. Posthuman Conditions in Xiao Jianheng’s Science Fiction Narratives 6. Tech-Science Fiction and the Four Modernizations 7. Fledgling Media Convergence: PRC Science Fiction from Print to Electronic Media 8. Blooming, Contending, and Boundary-Breaking in a Genre of Government-Backed Literature Endnotes Bibliography Chinese Character Glossary Index
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University of Toronto Press The Akunin Project
Book SynopsisYou don't know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.Trade Review"One fascinating feature of The Akunin Project is its intention to experiment with the traditional form of an academic collected volume as well as epitomize postmodernist aesthetics both thematically and stylistically in this project." -- Olga Breininger-Umetayeva, Higher School of Economics * The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Transliteration 1. The Akunin Project: Introduction Elena V. Baraban and Stephen M. Norris 2. Interview with Grigorii Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin) Part One: Postmodern Detektiv: The Erast Fandorin Series 3. In Search of a Hero: Boris Akunin’s Death of Achilles Elena V. Baraban 4. Rewriting Homer: Boris Akunin’s Postmodern Approach Judith Kalb Part Two: Amateur Detectives: The Sister Pelagia Trilogy and Adventures of Nicholas Fandorin 5. Tempting the Reader into a Search for Meaning: Boris Akunin’s Pelagia Trilogy Claire Whitehead 6. "A Little Theory": Boris Akunin’s "Crime and Punishment" Zara M. Torlone Part Three: Buried Secrets and Historical Spies in Akunin’s Works 7. The Mysteries of Moscow: In Which Boris Akunin Impersonates a French Writer and Reveals a Buried Secret Elizabeth Richmond-Garza 8. Spying on the Past: Boris Akunin’s History of Espionage Stephen M. Norris Part Four: Rewriting the History of Russia 9. L’etat, c’est tout: Boris Akunin’s History of the Russian State and the National History Canon Ilya Gerasimov 10. An Instructional Manual for the Nation: Boris Akunin’s History of the Russian State Stephen M. Norris Part Five: New Pseudonyms and Projects: Anatolii Brusnikin and Akunin-Chkhartishvili 11. "Under the Wide-Branching Cranberry": Stiob and Allusion in Anatoly Brusnikin’s The Ninth Saviour Yekaterina Severts 12. The Family Album: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances Elena V. Baraban Part Six: Boris Akunin as a Literary and Commercial Project 13. Socialist Realism Inside-Out: Boris Akunin and Mass Literature for the Elite Bradley A. Gorski 14. Boris Akunin and Cross-Media Marketing Natalia Erlenkamp 15. Conclusion: A Dozen Questions for Boris Akunin Appendices: Excerpts from Boris Akunin's Untranslated Works 1. Grigorii Chkhartishvili, "If I Were a Newspaper Magnate: Notes of a Restless Cow" (1999), translated by Bradley A. Gorski 2. "A New Karamzin Has Appeared" and "General Introduction" to The History of the Russian State, translated by Stephen M. Norris 3. Excerpt from Boris Akunin, Spy Novel (2005), translated by Stephen M. Norris 4. Excerpt from Anatolii Brusnikin, The Ninth Savior, translated by Yekaterina Severts List of Works by Boris Akunin List of Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press Spaniards in Mauthausen
Book SynopsisSpaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work. Diverse accounts from survivors of Mauthausen, chronicled in letters, artwork, photographs, memoirs, fiction, film, theatre, and new media, illustrate how Spaniards have become cognizant of the Spanish government’s relationship to the Nazis and its role in the victimization of Spanish nationals in Mauthausen. As political prisoners, their numbers and experiences differ significantly from the millions of Jews exterminated by Hitler, yet the Spaniards in Mauthausen were nevertheless objects of Nazi violence and witnesses to the Holocaust.Trade Review"A painstaking and definitive book." -- Ariel Dorfman * The New York Review of Books *"Brenneis has crafted a cohesive and thought-provoking study on the experiences of Spaniards in Mauthausen, which is underpinned by meticulous research, and engagingly written." -- Andrea Hepworth, Victoria University of Wellington * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"Spaniards in Mauthausen advances historical memory discourse by contributing new voices to the conversation as it brings forth representations of Spaniards from concentration camps to form a part of the historiography of the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship." -- Wendy Perla Kurtz * Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies *"The book immerses us in a complex history, which is only now slowly being revealed to Spanish society. [...] Brenneis’ work illuminates the complexity of this history, thus making it a necessary reference for future studies." -- Santiago López Rodríguez * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *"Sara Brenneis' terrific monograph...makes a timely and important contribution to memory studies both in Spain and across a wider transnational field." -- Maria Delgado * Times Higher Education *"[A]n evocatively written reflection on Mauthausen today – as a physical and imagined space – that reads like a compelling piece of long-form reporting." -- Sebastiaan Faber * Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanos *"The book is thorough and informative. The bibliography is abundant and pertinent. It is a good source of information about the representation of the Spaniards in Mauthausen." -- Silvia Ribelles de la Vega * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsThe View from Inside: Clandestine Representations and Testimony of Mauthausen (1940-46) Postwar Impressions: The First Published Representations of the Camp (1945-1963) Transitions: Early Accounts of Mauthausen (1970s) Memories Unleashed: Mauthausen after Franco (1980-2015) Mauthausen Today
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University of Toronto Press Telling Anxiety
Book SynopsisFrom two world wars to rapid industrialization and population shifts, events of the twentieth century engendered cultural anxieties to an extent hitherto unseen, particularly in Europe. In Telling Anxiety, Jennifer Willging examines manifestations of such anxieties in the selected narratives of four women writing in French – Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute, Annie Ernaux, and Anne Hébert. Willging demonstrates that the anxieties inherent in these women's works (whether attributed to characters, narrators, or implied authors) are multiple in nature and relate to a general post-Second World War scepticism about the power of language to express non-linguistic phenomena such as the destruction and loss of life that a large portion of Europe endured during that period.Willging maintains that while these women writers are profoundly wary of language and its artificiality, they eschew the radical linguistic scepticism of many post-war male writers and theorists. R
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University of Toronto Press Being Poland
Book SynopsisBeing Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland’s return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland’s cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland’s modern and contemporary cultural practices, and challenges the narrative typically prescribed to Polish literature and film. Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century.Trade Review"Although designed to cater to the needs of students of Polish studies and literature, this volume will also be of great use to all scholars interested in central and eastern European history, culture, and literature, and indeed to the general public." -- Aleksandra Witczak Haugstad, Research Council of Norway * H-Net Reviews (H-Poland) *"In 2006, several scholars decided to do something about the lack of a comprehensive, up-to-date, research-based work dealing with Polish literature and culture. It took over a decade to complete this ambitious project of delivering a new and updated history of this vast subject for a non-Polish speaking audience…the result of the combined efforts of sixty scholars from both sides of the Atlantic is both impressive and voluminous." -- Aleksandra Witczak Haugstad, Research Council of Norway * H-Net, HABSBURG *Table of Contents1. Transitions 2. Strategies 3. Transmissions 4. Genres and Their Discontents 5. Postwar and Post-1989 Drama 6. Essay 7. Diaries 8. Reportage 9. Literary Theory 10. Film 11. Popular Culture 12. Mass Media
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University of Toronto Press The Akunin Project
Book SynopsisThe Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in post-Soviet Russia. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Chkhartishvili published over sixty books under the pen names Anatolii Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, Akunin-Chkhartishvili, and, most commonly, Boris Akunin. His series featuring the tsarist secret policeman Erast Fandorin has sold over 15 million books in Russia alone, making Akunin one of the bestselling authors of the post-Soviet era. Combining intertextuality, allusions, pastiche, and other markers of postmodern playfulness, many of Akunin’s works have been translated into English and have also been adapted for film and television. Akunin’s public profile has been further enhanced by his active involvement in mass political protests against Vladimir Putin. Despite Akunin’s international reputation as a celebrated writer, there is vTrade Review"One fascinating feature of The Akunin Project is its intention to experiment with the traditional form of an academic collected volume as well as epitomize postmodernist aesthetics both thematically and stylistically in this project." -- Olga Breininger-Umetayeva, Higher School of Economics * The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Transliteration 1. The Akunin Project: Introduction Elena V. Baraban and Stephen M. Norris 2. Interview with Grigorii Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin) Part One: Postmodern Detektiv: The Erast Fandorin Series 3. In Search of a Hero: Boris Akunin’s Death of Achilles Elena V. Baraban 4. Rewriting Homer: Boris Akunin’s Postmodern Approach Judith Kalb Part Two: Amateur Detectives: The Sister Pelagia Trilogy and Adventures of Nicholas Fandorin 5. Tempting the Reader into a Search for Meaning: Boris Akunin’s Pelagia Trilogy Claire Whitehead 6. "A Little Theory": Boris Akunin’s "Crime and Punishment" Zara M. Torlone Part Three: Buried Secrets and Historical Spies in Akunin’s Works 7. The Mysteries of Moscow: In Which Boris Akunin Impersonates a French Writer and Reveals a Buried Secret Elizabeth Richmond-Garza 8. Spying on the Past: Boris Akunin’s History of Espionage Stephen M. Norris Part Four: Rewriting the History of Russia 9. L’etat, c’est tout: Boris Akunin’s History of the Russian State and the National History Canon Ilya Gerasimov 10. An Instructional Manual for the Nation: Boris Akunin’s History of the Russian State Stephen M. Norris Part Five: New Pseudonyms and Projects: Anatolii Brusnikin and Akunin-Chkhartishvili 11. "Under the Wide-Branching Cranberry": Stiob and Allusion in Anatoly Brusnikin’s The Ninth Saviour Yekaterina Severts 12. The Family Album: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances Elena V. Baraban Part Six: Boris Akunin as a Literary and Commercial Project 13. Socialist Realism Inside-Out: Boris Akunin and Mass Literature for the Elite Bradley A. Gorski 14. Boris Akunin and Cross-Media Marketing Natalia Erlenkamp 15. Conclusion: A Dozen Questions for Boris Akunin Appendices: Excerpts from Boris Akunin's Untranslated Works 1. Grigorii Chkhartishvili, "If I Were a Newspaper Magnate: Notes of a Restless Cow" (1999), translated by Bradley A. Gorski 2. "A New Karamzin Has Appeared" and "General Introduction" to The History of the Russian State, translated by Stephen M. Norris 3. Excerpt from Boris Akunin, Spy Novel (2005), translated by Stephen M. Norris 4. Excerpt from Anatolii Brusnikin, The Ninth Savior, translated by Yekaterina Severts List of Works by Boris Akunin List of Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Book SynopsisNow available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death. The first volume, A Life in Print, focuses specifically on Montgomery’s role as a public celebrity and author of the resoundingly successful Anne of Green Gables (1908). The selections give a strong impression of Montgomery as a writer and cultural critic as she discusses a range of topics with wit, wisdom, and humour, including the natural landscape of Prince Edward Island, her wide readership, anxieties about modernity, and the continued relevance of old ideals. These essays and interviews, joined by a number of additional pieces that discuss her work’s literary and cultural value in relation to an emerging canon of Canadian literature, make up nearly one hundred selections in all. Each volume in TheTrade Review"Lefebvre’s archival research is thorough and often brilliant, making the Reader an invaluable trove not only for Montgomery scholars but also for those working with the reception history of Canadian writers, especially women before Laurence, Munro, and Atwood. For Montgomery completists, the Reader is irresistible. For those engaged in Montgomery studies or Canadian literature more generally, it is invaluable." -- Anne Furlong * University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015 *“While Lefebvre’s The L.M. Montgomery Reader is a vital resource of primary sources from and secondary assessments of one of Canada’s most popular twentieth-century authors, it is his insightful and knowledgeable analysis that shapes and gives meaning to the collection. The depth of his knowledge results in a work that is as comprehensible as it is comprehensive.” -- Andre Narbonne * American Review of Canadian Studies *"With this volume, Lefebvre broadens our understanding of Montgomery's reception and reputation both within Canada and internationally, unearthing previously obscure content and commentary and making it accessible to a far wider audience. This reader will thus prove a valuable resource to both existing and future scholars of Montgomery's work and life, as well as those fans keen for a little more insight into the ever-elusive figure of L.M. Montgomery." -- Sarah Galletly * British Journal of Canadian Studies *"Lefebvre has uncovered a cache of new, important material in an already impressive and crowded field of Montgomery scholarship … His sensitive editing of the material brings the public side of Montgomery into better focus as she fields endless questions about how she became a writer, how Anne came to be and whether or not she was a real girl and what the author thought of young women in her day. [This book will] deepen our knowledge and understanding of this beloved Canadian icon." -- Laurie Glenn Norris * Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, NB) *"This comprehensive volume (with its two companions) forms a treasure trove of previously unavailable material; it will be of interest to scholars of Canadian and world literature and possibly to true admirers of Anne of Green Gables and its author." -- Barbara L. Talcroft * Children's Literature LLC *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Life in Print BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE A Note on the Text 1. [Such a Delightful Little Person] (1908) 2. Author Tells How He Wrote His Story (1908) 3. Origin of Popular Book (1908) 4. The Author of Anne of Avonlea (1909) 5. Miss Montgomery, the Author of the “Anne” Books (1909) A. WYLIE MAHON 6. A Trio of Women Writers (1909) DONALD B. SINCLAIR 7. Canadian Writers on Canadian Literature – A Symposium (1910) 8. Says Woman’s Place Is Home (1910) 9. Want to Know How to Write Books? Well Here’s a Real Recipe (1910) PHOEBE DWIGHT 10. Miss Montgomery’s Visit to Boston (1910) 11. Four Questions Answered (1910) LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY 12. Miss L.M. Montgomery, Author of Anne of Green Gables (1910) 13. How I Began to Write (1911) L.M. MONTGOMERY 14. [Seasons in the Woods] (1911) L.M. MONTGOMERY 15. With Our Next-Door Neighbors: Prince Edward Island (1911) THOMAS F. ANDERSON 16. [The Marriage of L.M. Montgomery] (1911) 17. A Canadian Novelist of Note Interviewed (1911) 18. Interviews with Authors (1911) ANNE E. NIAS 19. The Old Minister in The Story Girl (1912) A. WYLIE MAHON 20. L.M. Montgomery: Story Writer (1913) MARJORY MACMURCHY 21. L.M. Montgomery at Women’s Canadian Club (1913) 22. L.M. Montgomery of the Island (1914) MARJORY MACMURCHY 23. What Twelve Canadian Women Hope to See as the Outcome of the War (1915) 24. The Way to Make a Book (1915) L.M. MONTGOMERY 25. How I Began (1915) L.M. MONTGOMERY 26. [This Hideous War] (1915) 27. What Are the Greatest Books in the English Language? (1916) 28. My Favorite Bookshelf (1917) L.M. MONTGOMERY 29. The Author of Anne (1919) ETHEL CHAPMAN 30. The Gay Days of Old (1919) L.M. MONTGOMERY 31. Introduction to Further Chronicles of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery (1920) NATHAN HASKELL DOLE 32. One Little Girl Who Wrote to L.M. Montgomery and Received a Reply (1920) 33. A Sextette of Canadian Women Writers (1920) OWEN MCGILLICUDDY 34. Blank Verse? “Very Blank,” Said Father (1921) L.M. MONTGOMERY 35. “I Dwell among My Own People” (1921) L.M. MONTGOMERY 36. Bits from My Mailbag (1922) L.M. MONTGOMERY 37. From Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing: Advice, Opinions and a Statement of Their Own Working Methods by More Than One Hundred Authors (1923) 38. Novel Writing Notes (1923) L.M. MONTGOMERY 39. Proud That Canadian Literature Is Clean (1924) 40. Canadian Public Cold to Its Own Literature (1924) 41. Thinks Modern Flapper Will Be Strict Mother (1924) 42. Symposium on Canadian Fiction in Which Canadian Authors Express Their Preferences (1924) 43. Something about L.M. Montgomery (1925) 44. L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside: A Reader’s Journal (1925) ALTAIR 45. Famous Author and Simple Mother (1925) NORMA PHILLIPS MUIR 46. The Day before Yesterday (1927) L.M. MONTGOMERY MACDONALD 47. Who’s Who in Canadian Literature: L.M. Montgomery (1927) V.B. RHODENIZER 48. About Canadian Writers: L.M. Montgomery, the Charming Author of “Anne” (1927) KATHERINE HALE 49. On Being of the Tribe of Joseph (1927) AUSTIN BOTHWELL 50. Minister’s Wife and Authoress (1928) C.L. COWAN 51. An Autobiographical Sketch (1929) L.M. MONTGOMERY 52. Modern Girl Defined by Noted Writer (1929) 53. L.M. Montgomery’s Ideas (1930) 54. The ’Teen-Age Girl (1931) L.M. MONTGOMERY 55. Anne of Green Gables at Home (1931) A.V. BROWN 56. An Open Letter from a Minister’s Wife (1931) L.M. MONTGOMERY 57. Life Has Been Interesting (1933) MRS. L.M. MACDONALD (L.M. MONTGOMERY) 58. The Importance of Beauty in Everything (1933) L.M. MONTGOMERY 5.9 From Courageous Women (1934) L.M. MONTGOMERY 60. Author to Get No Profit as Green Gables Filmed (1934) 61. Film Preview of Noted Novel Honors Canadian Woman Writer (1934) 62. Is This My Anne (1935) L.M. MONTGOMERY 63. Foreword to Up Came the Moon, by Jessie Findlay Brown (1936) L.M. MONTGOMERY 64. Come Back with Me to Prince Edward Island (1936) L.M. MONTGOMERY 65. Memories of Childhood Days (1936) L.M. MONTGOMERY 66. The Mother of the Anne Series – Lucy M. Montgomery (1937) EVA-LIS WUORIO, TRANSLATED BY VAPPU KANNAS 67. The Book and the Film (1937) 68. For and about Girls (1937) L.M. MONTGOMERY 69. Prince Edward Island (1939) L.M. MONTGOMERY, OBE 70. Beloved Writer Addresses Several Aurora Gatherings (1940) 71. Noted Author Dies Suddenly at Home Here (1942) 72. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1942) 73. L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne” (1942) 74. Body of Island’s Beloved Authoress Home for Burial (1942) 75. Island Writer Laid to Rest at Cavendish (1942) 76. The Creator of “Anne” (1942) 77. [L.M. Montgomery’s Last Poem] (1942) 78. L.M. Montgomery / Mrs. (Rev.) Ewen Macdonald (1942) 79. L.M. Montgomery as a Letter-Writer (1942) E. WEBER 80. L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne” (1944) E. WEBER Epilogue: Anne of Green Gables – The Story of the Photoplay (1920) ARABELLA BOONE Sources Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Book SynopsisNow available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death. The second volume, A Critical Heritage, narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery’s critical reputation in the years since her death. It traces milestones and turning points such as adaptations for stage and screen, posthumous publications, and the development of Montgomery Studies as a scholarly field. The introduction also considers Montgomery’s publishing history in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom at a time when her work remained in print not because it was considered part of a university canon of literature, but simply due to the continued interest of readers. Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader is accompanied by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading MoTrade Review‘Lefebvre’s archival research is thorough and often brilliant, making the Reader an invaluable trove not only for Montgomery scholars but also for those working with the reception history of Canadian writers.’ -- Anne Furlong * University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015 *“Both scholars and devoted readers of this complex Canadian author will find it fascinating.” -- Barbara L. Talcroft * Children's Literature LLC *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Critical Heritage BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE A Note on the Text 1. Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874–1942 (1966) ELIZABETH WATERSTON 2. The Fair World of L.M. Montgomery (1973) HELEN PORTER 3. Anne of Green Gables and the Regional Idyll (1983) T.D. MACLULICH 4. Little Orphan Mary: Anne’s Hoydenish Double (1989) >ROSAMOND BAILEY 5. Subverting the Trite: L.M. Montgomery’s “Room of Her Own” (1992) MARY RUBIO 6. Women’s Oral Narrative Traditions as Depicted in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Fiction, 1918–1939 (1993) DIANE TYE 7. L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside: Intention, Inclusion, Implosion (1994) OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS 8. Decoding L.M. Montgomery’s Journals / Encoding a Critical Practice for Women’s Private Literature (1994) HELEN M. BUSS 9. “Fitted to Earn Her Own Living”: Figures of the New Woman in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery (1995) CAROLE GERSON 10. “Pruned Down and Branched Out”: Embracing Contradiction in Anne of Green Gables (1995) LAURA M. ROBINSON 11. Finding L.M. Montgomery’s Short Stories (1995) REA WILMSHURST 12. L.M. Montgomery’s Manuscript Revisions (1995) ELIZABETH EPPERLY 13. “My Secret Garden”: Dis/Pleasure in L.M. Montgomery and F.P. Grove (1999) IRENE GAMMEL 14. Writing with a “Definite Purpose”: L.M. Montgomery, Nellie L. McClung and the Politics of Imperial Motherhood in Fiction for Children (2000) CECILY DEVEREUX 15. Kinship and Nation in Amelia (1848) and Anne of Green Gables (1908) (2002) MONIQUE DULL 16. The Maud Squad (2002) CYNTHIA BROUSE 17. “The Golden Road of Youth”: L.M. Montgomery and British Children’s Books (2004) JENNIFER H. LITSTER 18. Women at War: L.M. Montgomery, the Great War, and Canadian Cultural Memory (2008) ANDREA MCKENZIE 19. Anne of Green Gables / Akage no An: The Flowers of Quiet Happiness (2008) EMILY AOIFE SOMERS 20. Archival Adventures with L.M. Montgomery; or, “As Long as the Leaves Hold Together” (2012) VANESSA BROWN AND BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE Sources Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Book SynopsisNow available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death. Volume Three: A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of Montgomery’s critical reception: reviews of her books. Although Montgomery downplayed the impact that reviews had on her writing career, claiming to be amused and tolerant of reviewers’ contradictory opinions about her work, she nevertheless cared enough to keep a large percentage of them in scrapbooks as an archive of her career. This volume presents more than four hundred reviews from eight countries that raise questions about and offer reflections on gender, genre, setting, character, audience, and nationalism, much of which anticipated the scholarship that has thrived in the last four decades. Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader<Trade Review‘Lefebvre’s overall achievement in this Reader series is a masterful compilation of archival adeptness and exquisite editing that addresses, through collation, crucial source materials for specialists in Canadian literature and history.’ -- Aoife Assumpta Hart * Canadian Literature issue number 226 *‘Lefebvre’s archival research is thorough and often brilliant, making the Reader an invaluable trove not only for Montgomery scholars but also for those working with the reception history of Canadian writers.’ -- Anne Furlong * University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015 *“Lefebvre has thoroughly mined earlier scholars’ bibliographies and online newspaper archives to find reviews in periodicals from eight different countries, including the Bookman (London), the Globe (Toronto) and Vogue (New York). . . . Collectively, these reviews . . . represent a superb barometer of [Montgomery’s] fluctuating cultural value as a writer.” -- Irene Gammel * The Times Literary Supplement *“Lefebvre has uncovered a cache of new, important material in an already impressive and crowded field of Montgomery scholarship.” -- Laurie Glenn Norris * Saint John Telegraph-Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Legacy in Review Benjamin LefebvreA Note on the Text 1. Anne of Green Gables (1908) 2. Anne of Avonlea (1909) 3. Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910) 4. The Story Girl (1911) 5. Chronicles of Avonlea (1912) 6. The Golden Road (1913) 7. Anne of the Island (1915) 8. The Watchman and Other Poems (1916) 9. Anne’s House of Dreams (1917) 10. Rainbow Valley (1919) 11. Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920) 12. Rilla of Ingleside (1921) 13. Emily of New Moon (1923) 14. Emily Climbs (1925) 15. The Blue Castle: A Novel (1926) 16. Emily’s Quest (1927) 17. Magic for Marigold (1929) 18. A Tangled Web/Aunt Becky Began It (1931) 19. Pat of Silver Bush (1933) 20. Courageous Women (1934) (with Marian Keith and Mabel Burns Mckinley) 21. Mistress Pat: A Novel of Silver Bush (1935) 22. Anne of Windy Poplars/Anne of Windy Willows (1936) 23. Jane of Lantern Hill (1937) 24. Anne of Ingleside (1939) Epilogue: Posthumous Titles, 1960–2013 Benjamin LefebvreSources Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Finnegans Wakes
Book SynopsisJames Joyce''s astonishing final text, Finnegans Wake (1939), is universally acknowledged to be entirely untranslatable. And yet, no fewer than fifteen complete renderings of the 628-page text exist to date, in twelve different languages altogether and at least ten further complete renderings have been announced as underway for publication in the early 2020s, in nine different languages. Finnegans Wakes delineates, for the first time in any language, the international history of these renderings and discusses the multiple issues faced by translators. The book also comments on partial and fragmentary renderings from some thirty languages altogether, including such perhaps unexpected languages as Galician, Guarani, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Irish, not to mention Latin and Ancient Egyptian. Excerpts from individual renderings are analysed in detail, together with brief biographical notes on numerous individual translators. Chronicling renderings spanninTrade Review"With a seventeen-page chronology of all the translations of Finnegans Wake (FW), in part and whole, a comprehensive Bibliography, as well as an Appendix specifically only of all known ALP translations, Finnegans Wakes is an invaluable reference work. Finnegans Wakes makes for quite fascinating reading as well, and should especially be of considerable interest to anyone interested in FW and/or in translation." -- M.A. Orthofer * The Complete Review *"Patrick O’Neill’s Finnegans Wakes: Tales of Translation serves up a rich, welcome translation history of Joyce’s book that not only reveals how far the Wake has come in eighty years but likewise yields tantalizing avenues for further exploration." -- José Vergara, Bryn Mawr College * James Joyce Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Wake in Progress: 1930s to 2020s 2. The 1930s Beckett's French ALP, Joyce's French ALP, Ogden's Basic English ALP Goyert's German ALP, Weatherall's Czech ALP, Nishiwaki's Japanese ALP 3. The 1940s and 1950s Joyce's Italian ALP Other Voices: German, French, Serbian, Portuguese, Polish 4. The 1960s Italian French Spanish Portuguese Hungarian German Romanian Slovak Japanese Galician Swedish 5. The 1970s German Japanese Spanish Italian Polish French Hungarian Russian Croatian 6. The 1980s Italian French Japanese Spanish Catalan Polish German Korean Serbian Swedish 7. The 1990s Portuguese Italian Japanese Spanish Hungarian German Galician Polish Romanian Danish Russian Guarani 8. The 2000s Russian Slovenian Swedish Italian Dutch Korean Portuguese French Japanese Catalan Irish Finnish Hungarian Spanish Danish Polish Czech 9. The 2010s Esperanto Italian Polish Chinese Japanese German Danish Dutch Greek Swedish Portuguese Finnish Romanian Serbian French Spanish Hebrew Turkish Norwegian Russian Slovenian Georgian Ancient Egyptian Latin 10. The 2020s Portuguese German Chinese Danish Georgian Serbian Spanish Russian Turkish Finnish Norwegian Hungarian Arabic Conclusion Appendix: Anna Livia Plurilingual Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Bilingual Legacies
Book SynopsisBilingual Legacies examines fatherhood in the work of four canonical Spanish authors born in Barcelona and raised during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Drawing on the autobiographical texts of Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Barral, Terenci Moix, and Clara Janés, the book explores how these authors understood gender roles and paternal figures as well as how they positioned themselves in relation to Spanish and Catalan literary traditions. Anna Casas Aguilar contends that through their presentation of father figures, these authors subvert static ideas surrounding fatherhood. She argues that this diversity was crucial in opening the door to revised gender models in Spain during the democratic period. Moving beyond the shadow of the dictator, Casas Aguilar shows how these writers distinguished between the patriarchal father of the nation and their own paternal figures. In doing so, Bilingual Legacies sheds light on the complexity of Spanish conceptions of gender, lTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Filiations 2. Juan Goytisolo: Oedipal Dissolutions 3. Carlos Barral: Masculine Subjectivity and the Catalan Father 4. Terenci Moix: Linguistic and Sexual Disaffiliations 5. Clara Janés: Fatherhood and the Feminine Afterword: Bilingual Legacies Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press Extraordinary Aesthetes
Book SynopsisExtraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.Trade Review“[Extraordinary Aesthetes] is rich in material and interpretation and introduces the reader to aspects of cultural and literary life at the end of the nineteenth century, which will certainly enrich any previous studies and encourage further reading. Bristow’s mission to extend and transform his cited key texts is successfully achieved.” -- Miriam al Jamil * The Wildean *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Joseph Bristow Part One: New Women, Female Aesthetes, and the Emergence of Decadence 1. Impressionistic Photography and the flâneuse in Amy Levy’s Romance of a Shop S. Brooke Cameron 2. The Decay of Marriage in Ella D’Arcy’s Decadent New Woman Fiction Kate Krueger 3. Mabel Dearmer’s Decadent Way Diana Maltz Part Two: Femininity, Masculinity, and Fin-de-Siècle Aesthetics 4. “So much too little”: Alice Meynell, Walter Pater, and the Question of Influence Beth Newman 5. Richard Le Gallienne and the Rhymers: Masculine Minority in the 1890s Emily Harrington 6. Max Beerbohm’s “Improved” Intentions by Oscar Wilde: The Aesthetics of Cosmesis Megan Becker Part Three: Women, Babies, Moons – 1890s Poetics 7. Dollie Radford and the Case of the Disappearing Babies Julie Wise 8. “She hath no air”: Mary Coleridge’s Moon Kasey Bass Part Four: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Modern Age 9. Radical Empathy in Dora Sigerson’s Fairy Changeling and Broadside Poems of 1916–17 So Young Park 10. The Boom in Yellow: The Afterlife of the 1890s Kristin Mahoney Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press Blaise Cendrars
Book SynopsisIn Blaise Cendrars: Discovery and Re-creation, Jay Bochner presents a revealing account of Cendrars' life and established the imoprtance of his work in the mainstream of modern literature. Prolific and versatile, Cendrars wrote poetry, radio plays, novels, essays, autobiography, and books on the cinema. An early contributor to the Dada movement, he was at the forefront of the Paris avant-garde before and after the first world war, and his powerful poetic style influenced such writers as Apollinaire, Henry Miller, and John Dos Passos. Although he was well known to the French reading public, lavishly praised by his peers, and well received by the important critics of his day, Cendrars' critical reputation has not endured. The first part of the book is biographical, and in this section Professor Bochner suggests that the reasons for Cendrars' obscurity have more to do with his life than his works. Cendrars himself cared little about his reputation. Although he knew most
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University of Toronto Press Dear Bill
Book SynopsisIn the four decades between 1920 and 1960, William Deacon, Canada's first full-time literary journalist, devoted his career to the twin goals of fostering a Canadian readership for Canadian writers and creating a sense of community among those writers. His reviews in Saturday Night, The Mail and Empire, and Globe and Mail were the most widely read literary commentary of his day. His vast correspondence with a wide range of writers, politicians, historians, cultural nationalists and a select number of eccentrics created a forty-year dialogue in which is ideas about writing, publishing culture, and politics were shared, formulated, and debated with a formidable array of personal and literary friends, among them E.J. Pratt, Laura Goodman Salverson, Duncan Campbell Scott, A.R.M. Lower, J.S. Woodsworth, Thomas Raddall, Hugh MacLennan, and Mazo de la Roche. The exchanges trade the ebullient cultural nationalism of the 1920s and Deacon's enthusiastic immersion i
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University of Toronto Press Calderon de la Barca Studies 195169
Book SynopsisThe critical survey and annotated bibliography lists books and journal articles published on Calderon between 1951 and 1969. It continues the work on Calderon contained in W.T. McCready’s bibliografia tematica de estudios sobre el Teatro Espanol Antiguo, and follows the pattern of the Lope de Vega Studies 1937–1962. Like the Lope, it is a project of the research committee of Spanish Group Three of the Modern Language Association of America. This will be an indispensable reference tool for those interested in the dramatists of the Gold Age.
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University of Toronto Press Phenomenological Hermeneutics and the Study of Literature
Book SynopsisIn the intensity of current theoretical debates, critics and students of literature are sometimes in danger of losing sight of the most basic principles and presuppositions of their discipline, of the underlying connections between attitudes to truth and the study of literature. Aware of this danger, Mario Valdés has taken up the challenge of retracing the historical and philosophical background of his own approach to literature, the application of phenomenological philosophy to the interpretation of texts. Phenomenological hermeneutics, Valdés reminds us, participates in a long-standing tradition of textual commentary that originates in the Renaissance and achieves full force in the work of Giambattista Vico by the middle of the eighteenth century. Valdés characterizes this tradition as the embodiment of a relational rather than an absolutist epistemology: its practitioners do not seek fixed and exclusive meanings in texts but regard the literary work of art as an experience that
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University of Toronto Press A Legacy of Lyrics
Book SynopsisAfter Florence Hester Edgar passed away in 1944, there was found among her effects a quantity of compositions in prose and verse almost ready for publication. From this literary bequest has been selected the poetry that follows. Some poems were published in the daily press of Ottawa, and others in a small brochure. But most of the poems are now offered to the reading public for the first time, and the editor bespeaks for them a cordial reception.
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University of Toronto Press The Narcissistic Text
Book SynopsisCritics, theologians, philosophers, and psychoanalysts have written several thousand books, theses, and articles about Camus' fiction. His first published novel, L'Etranger, had a unique impact on a whole generation of readers, and is other fiction, although not as well known, has also been influential. However, Camus' fiction so far has not been judged by contemporary critical methods, and 'inter-textuality,' or the study of the interrelationship between Camus' own texts, has not been examined.The Narcissistic Text: A Reading of Camus' Fiction is the first book devoted to the whole of Camus' fiction to adopt this approach. Brian Fitch uses the critical tools elaborated in the writings of such French formalists as Barthes, Ricardou, and Todorov and draws upon the hermeneutic theory of literature developed by Gadamer and Ricoeur. As a result, the self-generating word-play or linguistic narcissism of 'Jonas' and the textual narcissism of La Peste are seen to give way,
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University of Nebraska Press Weak Nationalisms
Book SynopsisExplores the complex and dynamic ways in which emotions shape the post-World War II writing of the United States and argues that reading these narratives for their affects is to read for the emotional work that takes place between the part and the whole.Trade ReviewDowland shows us new ways to engage Americanist criticism and to understand and respond to the political extremes that threaten democracy in the United States today. Creative, insightful, and generous, Weak Nationalisms is important for critics and citizens who believe in the imaginative possibilities of reading as a means to positively attach to our world, even to our nationalisms."" - Christopher Castiglia, author of The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times""In Weak Nationalisms, Douglas Dowland shows how largely a figure of speech - synecdoche - figures in the affective dimension of nationalism. . . . But where many studies of nationalism stress the obscured means through which these affective ties work, Dowland finds most interesting the `unmediated, tactile, sensuous engagement with the emotions' evident in the nonfiction works he considers. With its interest in the persistence of national affect, Weak Nationalisms is a timely and important study."" - Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English at Duke University""How have citizens of the United States historically understood their relationship to the nation? The answer Weak Nationalisms gives is both elegantly specific and broadly compelling. This book is smart and timely. It draws out some of the most pressing issues Americans are currently tangling with in everyday life. It is an engaging, well-executed, and important book."" - Rachel Greenwald Smith, author of Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism""Weak Nationalisms makes visible a vibrant and underappreciated trajectory of literary nonfiction about the United States. Douglas Dowland effectively and persuasively presents the ways in which a range of writers negotiate a mode of nationalistic feeling that embraces core tenets of American liberalism, while resisting and questioning the hierarchies that we often associate with nationalism. The book offers a refreshing and timely reflection on the uses of `weak nationalism' in our time."" - Daniel Worden, author of Masculine Style: The American West and Literary ModernismTable of ContentsIntroduction: Affected Readers in an Imagined Community 1. Moodiness: The Everyday America of Beauvoir’s America Day by Day 2. Curiosity and its Discontents: Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley and America and Americans 3. Hopefulness: On the Road with Charles Kuralt 4. Incredulity: Reading Sarah Vowell Conclusion: Affected Critics: the Nation and the Limits of Critique Works Cited
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University of Nebraska Press Caught between the Lines
Book SynopsisExamines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.Trade Review“An outstanding book. The subject of the captive is deeply embedded in the Argentine imagination, and Carlos Riobó reveals its every nuance, from nineteenth-century myths of national racial purity to the re-identification of all its components during the Perón era. A book like this can only be the product of a great teacher who has labored to make his subject attractive to undergraduates. With this book Riobó has established a niche for himself: it sets a professional standard.”—Alfred Mac Adam, professor of Spanish at Barnard College, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. A National Trope: Captivity within Argentine History 2. Crossing Borders: Mestizaje and Frontiers 3. Ambivalent Histories: An Early Legend and a First-Person Account 4. Captives in Argentine Literature: A Mimetic Historical Record 5. Virtue-al Representations: Captives in Argentine Art Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press The Story of Me
Book SynopsisAutofiction, or works in which the eponymous author appears as a fictionalized character, represents a significant trend in postwar American literature, when it proliferated to become a kind of postmodern cliché. The Story of “Me” charts the history and development of this genre, analyzing its narratological effects and discussing its cultural implications. By tracing autofiction’s conceptual issues through case studies and an array of texts, Marjorie Worthington sheds light on a number of issues for postwar American writing: the maleness of the postmodern canon—and anxieties created by the supposed waning of male privilege—the relationship between celebrity and authorship, the influence of theory, the angst stemming from claims of the “death of the author,” and the rise of memoir culture. Worthington constructs and contextualizes a bridge between the French literary context, fromwhich the term originated, and theTrade Review"The Story of "Me" explores the territory between fiction and nonfiction specifically characterized by direct authorial intrusion into and interpretation of the text. . . . Worthington provides theoretical groundwork for addressing questions about gray areas between fiction and memoir regarding the nature of truth and fabrication. These questions are important because they concern trust and truth regarding "facts," the authorial voice, alternative narratives, the primacy and relevance of narrative voices, and so forth. It is good to work these ideas out, as Worthington does, in works by American writers such as Philip Roth, Joan Didion, and Kurt Vonnegut, but it is exponentially more significant for discussions of life and death issues such as truth, trust, convenient lies, inconvenient facts, "alternative" facts, and fake news as they play out on the national stage."—J. A. Zoller, Choice“Consistently intriguing and elegantly constructed. The Story of ‘Me’ should find an appreciative audience, as it highlights not only the existence of this under-remarked-upon genre but also the enormous explanatory power of that genre for thinking through the pressures and issues that postwar literature confronted. The opening chapter is particularly compelling, as it traces how we might see the rise of autofiction as a reaction to a supposed crisis of American masculinity.”—Daniel Grausam, associate professor of English studies at Durham University and author of On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War“An important and timely contribution. The level of scholarship that has gone into The Story of ‘Me’ is impressive: discussions are stuffed full of relevant references while remaining highly readable and coherent. The author’s grasp of the French context, relevant literary theory, and the American literary landscape is really admirable.”—Elizabeth H. Jones, joint academic director of the School of Arts and lecturer in French studies at the University of Leicester and author of Spaces of Belonging: Home, Culture, and Identity in Twentieth-Century French AutobiographyTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Masculinity, Whiteness, and Postmodern Self-Consciousness: Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Powers 2. Rage against the Dying of the Author: Philip Roth, Arthur Phillips, Ruth Ozeki, Salvador Plascencia, and Percival Everett 3. The New Journalism as the New Fiction: Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, Mark Leyner, and Bret Easton Ellis 4. Trauma Autofiction, Dissociation, and the Authenticity of “Real” Experience: Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Federman, Tim O’Brien, and Jonathan Safran Foer 5. Memoir vs. Autofiction as the Story of Me vs. the Story of “Me”: Philip Roth, Richard Powers, Bret Easton Ellis, and Ron Currie Jr. Coda Appendix: American Autofictions Notes References Index
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University of Nebraska Press We Who Work the West
Book Synopsis We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012. Moving from María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s representations of dispossessed Californio ranchers in the mid-nineteenth century to the urban grid of early twentieth-century San Francisco in Frank Norris’s McTeague to working and unemployed cowboys in the contemporary novels of Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry, Kiara Kharpertian provides a panoramic look at literary renderings of both individual labor—physical, tangible, and often threatened handwork—and the epochal transformations of central institutions of a modernizing West: the farm, the ranchero, the mine, the rodeo, and the Native American reservation. The West that emerges here is both dynamic and diverse, its on-the-ground organization of work, social class, individual mobility, and collective belonging constantly mutating in direct response tTrade Review"Kharpertian develops a compelling structure for adding class and labor to the field's longtime focus on categories of social identity like gender, ethnicity, race, and indigeneity, and on space/place-based inquiries."—Amanda J. Zink, American Literary History“Grounded in a winning insistence that ‘belonging can become a force available to all of us and that literature provides a laboratory in which to test its properties and potentialities,’ Kharpertian’s book grapples with the complex interrelations of labor, class, and space while providing a tour of some of western literature’s more down-and-out corners.”—Daniel Clausen, Western American Literature"If one wants to learn the latest trends in analysis of literature, this is a book to read."—Stan Moore, Denver Westerners Roundup“This book is not only important, it is essential. . . . Kharpertian’s bold book understands class, labor, and space—as profoundly interrelated functions that bounce off of each other to produce effects of identity both individual and cultural. . . . This is an act of redefinition, a vital and important corrective to the ongoing cultural work being done by an outdated yet still attractive mythos [of the West].”—Nicolas S. Witschi, editor of A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West“Through readings of literature by well-established and emerging western authors, Kharpertian provides a masterful study of labor and regional belonging that focuses on the struggle for dignity and sovereignty as well as the search for connections and community. Here, stories of miners, cowboys, bricklayers, and the unemployed appear alongside tales of ranchers, oil barons, bankers, and writers. The result is a powerful and engaging analysis that centers not on who won the West but on those who worked it.”—Susan Kollin, author of Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American WestTable of ContentsEditors’ Note Acknowledgments Introduction: How to Tell a Western Story 1. Naturalism’s Handiwork: Labor, Class, and Space in Frank Norris’s McTeague: A Story of San Francisco 2. Civic Identity and the Ethos of Belonging: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don and Raymond Barrio’s The Plum Plum Pickers 3. Watching the West Erode in the 1930s: Sanora Babb’s Whose Names Are Unknown, Frank Waters’s Below Grass Roots, and John Fante’s Wait Until Spring, Bandini and Ask the Dust 4. He Was a Good Cowboy: Identity and History on the Post–World War II Texas Ranch in Larry McMurtry’s Horseman, Pass By, Elmer Kelton’s The Time It Never Rained, and Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses 5. Tradition and Modernization Battle It Out on Rocky Soil: Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Stephen Graham Jones’s The Bird Is Gone, and Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit 6. From Prairie to Oil: Hybridization and Belonging via Class, Labor, and Space in Philipp Meyer’s The Son Notes References Index
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University of Nebraska Press No Place I Would Rather Be
Book SynopsisWith a new epilogue, Joe Bonomo looks at Roger Angell’s writing over the decades, including his early short stories, pieces for the New Yorker, and later autobiographical essays, and at the common threads that run through it.Trade Review"Of the recent books I have read about baseball, Joe Bonomo's book chronicling the career of Roger Angell, No Place I Would Rather Be, is one of the best, not only for Bonomo's considerable writing skills, but also for his compelling portrayal of Angell's erudition and unique focus on the 'lesser and sweeter moments' of the sport he loves."—Jill Brennan O'Brien, America Magazine"[No Place I Would Rather Be] offers a look behind the scenes of a remarkable career in a changing field."—New York Post"In 2014, Roger Angell was in Cooperstown at the Baseball Hall of Fame to receive the J. G. Taylor Spink Award "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing." Joe Bonomo's book offers an infinite number of reasons why this honor was richly deserved. It is a book worth reading."—Richard Crepeau, New York Journal of Books"I’m nowhere near a Roger Angell completist, and there’s no real good reason for it. The author, who hangs around here under the name “bonomo,” says early on that it’s not a biography of the legendary New Yorker baseball writer, and that’s true. But it’s kind of a biography of Angell’s process, in that Bonomo treats it as a living being, shaped by experiences that ordinarily wouldn’t be public knowledge."—Jim Margalus, Sox Machine"A rich adventure."—Tom Hoffarth, fartheroffthewall.com“The game of baseball best represents our country’s soul, and no one has chronicled its beauty better than Roger Angell. With only class and eloquence, Roger’s insights have taught us all—starting with sport and extending to humanity.”—Joe Torre, Hall of Famer and four-time World Championship manager of the New York Yankees and MLB’s chief baseball officer“Joe Bonomo’s immensely enjoyable book examines Angell’s baseball writing through the decades, shedding welcome light on the forces and events (both in the game and in Angell’s life) that shaped him into the greatest baseball writer of the post–World War II era. It’s an absolute must for any Angell fan and for anyone who digs great baseball writing in general.”—Dan Epstein, author of Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s“Roger Angell is an American treasure. Fans of baseball and the craft of writing will enjoy this inside look at one of the all-time best.”—Tom Verducci, author of The Yankee Years and The Cubs Way“Joe Bonomo has curated an enjoyable journey through the career and work of Roger Angell, the godfather to generations of outsiders who set out to bring a fresh perspective to baseball coverage. If you’ve ever immersed yourself in Angell’s prose and wondered where his incisive wit, ear for dialogue, and attention to detail came from, or wished to trace the development of recurring themes throughout his oeuvre, No Place I Would Rather Be is well worth your time.”—Jay Jaffe, author of The Cooperstown Casebook and a senior writer for FanGraphs.comTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Trying Out Good News Forever Delay on the Field You Want to Laugh, You Want More, You Want It to Be Over Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Sandoz Studies Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of the Sandoz Studies series, a collection of thematically grouped essays that feature writing by and about Mari Sandoz and her work. The scholarly essays and writings of Sandoz place her work into broader contexts, enriching our understanding of her as an author and as a woman deeply connected to the Sandhills of Nebraska.Trade Review"Sandoz's excerpts and the interpretive essays are interesting and well paired, making this little book a valuable contribution to 'expanding interest and research into Sandoz and her work.' It will be ideal for Sandoz Studies and appeal to diverse readers' book groups, and high school and university classes."—Betsy Downey, Great Plains Quarterly"This new Sandoz Studies series promises to consolidate and advance the state of Sandoz scholarship for Nebraska and to deepen literary consciousness for the entirety of the Great Plains."—Thomas D. Isern, South Dakota HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword, by John Wunder Acknowledgments Introduction Renée M. Laegreid and Shannon D. Smith 1. These Were the Sandhills Women: Stories, Images, and Mari Sandoz Renée M. Laegreid 2. The Vine Mari Sandoz 3. The Gender of Drought in Mari Sandoz’s “The Vine” Lisa Pollard 4. Excerpt from Slogum House Mari Sandoz 5. Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House: Greed as Woman Glenda Riley 6. Excerpt from “What the Sioux Taught Me” Mari Sandoz 7. Women in These Were the Sioux: Mari Sandoz’s Portrayal of Gender Shannon D. Smith 8. Sandoz Constructing Women with “Well-Knit Bone and Nerve”: Androgyny and Activism on the Great Plains Jillian Wenburg Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press Salvific Manhood
Book Synopsis2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSalvific Manhoodforegrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin’s six novels.Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex and difficult emotional choices Baldwin’s men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences.InSalvific Manhood, Gibson offers a new and compelling way to understand the hidden connections between Baldwin’s novels.Thematically daring and theoretically provocative, he presents a queering of salvation, a nuanced approach thatviewsredemption through the lenses of gender and sexuality. Exploring how fraternal crises develop out of sociopolitical forces and conditions,Salvific Manhoodtheorizes a spatiality of manhood, where spaces in between men are erased through expressions of intimacy and love.PosTrade Review"The author finds an edifying connection between the sanctuary the black church offered and the potential space of intimacy the body offered. Gibson engages in close readings of five seismic novels in the Baldwin canon, masterfully walking readers through the journey of John's forgotten birthday in Go Tell It on the Mountain and the streets of David's Paris in Giovanni's Room. This excellent study may interest those studying religion as well those in the disciplines of literature and cultural studies."—A. P. Pennino, Choice“Ernest L. Gibson III has given us a beautifully crafted, truly imaginative, and fresh approach to James Baldwin’s work. . . . [It] will be of interest to students and scholars of literary and cultural studies, queer studies, and even religious studies. This is truly an incredibly rich and creative work of scholarship that is not to be missed!”—Dwight A. McBride, coeditor of the James Baldwin Review “Salvific Manhood pioneers a timely and provocative discussion of James Baldwin’s revolutionary ideas on black masculinity. Professor Gibson reenvisions Baldwin’s novels through fraternal bonds between lovers, kin, and friends, elaborating politics of salvation that simultaneously trouble and bridge spirituality and the erotic.”—Magdalena J. Zaborowska, author of Me and My House: James Baldwin’s Last Decade in FranceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: In Search of the Fraternal 1. Wrestling for Salvation: Denial, Longing, and the Beauty of Brotherhood in Go Tell It on the Mountain 2. Flight, Freedom, and Abjection: Fractured Manhood and Tragic Love in Giovanni’s Room 3. Alone in the Absurd: The Trope of Tragic Black Manhood in Another Country 4. Theatrics of Mask-ulinity: Radical Male Intimacy and Black Power in Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone 5. Concrete Jungles and the Carceral: Exploring Confinement and Imprisonment in If Beale Street Could Talk Conclusion: Somewhere in That Wreckage Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Geographies of Urban Female Labor and Nationhood
Book SynopsisMar Soria presents an innovative cultural analysis of female workers in Spanish literature and films. Drawing from nation-building theories, the work of feminist geographers, and ideas about the construction of the marginal subject in society, Soria examines how working women were perceived as Other in Spain from 1880 to 1975. By studying the representation of these marginalized individuals in a diverse array of cultural artifacts, Soria contends that urban women workers symbolized the desires and anxieties of a nation caught between traditional values and rapidly shifting socioeconomic forces. Specifically, the representation of urban female work became a mode of reinforcing and contesting dominant discourses of gender, class, space, and nationhood in critical moments after 1880, when social and economic upheavals resulted in fears of impending national instability. Through these cultural artifacts Spaniards wrestled with the unresolved contradictions in the gender and class ideolTrade Review“Highly significant and unique. . . . This study certainly will make an important contribution to the field. To date no similar studies have so exhaustively addressed how the working woman became a pivotal and contested figure during Spain’s long and uneven path toward modernization.”—Juli Highfill, author of Modernism and Its Merchandise: The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920–1930“This excellent book revitalizes readings of familiar authors such as Emilia Pardo Bazán and Carmen Martín Gaite through a new lens . . . and it introduces us to some lesser-known authors. . . . Thoroughly researched, theoretically sophisticated, and well argued, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish society and fiction.”—Roberta Johnson, author of Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist TheoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Dismantling the Myth of Female Domesticity 1. The Castiza Working Woman: Regeneracionismo in Género Chico 2. Homebound Workers: The Reconfiguration of Bourgeois Domestic Space in Realism 3. Commodifying the Nation: The Store and the Shopgirl in Avant-Garde Literature 4. Working for Change during the Second Republic: A New Woman for the Nation in Conservative and Left-Wing Literature 5. Back Home? Counterdiscourses of Female Labor and Nationhood in Postwar Women’s Short Fiction 6. Spanish Women Are Different: Cinematic Anxieties of Female Work in Late Francoism 000 Epilogue: The Story Is Not Over Notes References Index
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University of Nebraska Press Cather Studies Volume 13
Book SynopsisWilla Cather wrote about the places she knew, including Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia. Often forgotten among these essential locations has been Pittsburgh. During the ten years Pittsburgh was her home (1896–1906), Cather worked as an editor, journalist, teacher, and freelance writer. She mixed with all sorts of people and formed friendships both ephemeral and lasting. She published extensively—and not just profiles and reviews but also a collection of poetry, April Twilights, and more than thirty short stories, including several collected in The Troll Garden that are now considered masterpieces: “A Death in the Desert,” “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” “A Wagner Matinee,” and “Paul’s Case.” During extended working vacations through 1916, she finished four novels in Pittsburgh.Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways that these crucial years in Pittsburgh shaped CatTrade Review"Joining the prestigious Cather Studies series, Willa Cather's Pittsburgh provides valuable information and insights on what is probably the least known period in the author's life and career, her years in Pittsburgh from 1896 to 1906. Editors Tim Bintrim, James Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan brought particular expertise to bear on the subject, and the result is a highly useful and thought-provoking collection."—Janis Stout, American Literary RealismTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Timothy W. Bintrim, James A. Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan Prologue: Becoming “Miss Cather from Pittsburgh” Ann Romines Part 1. East Meets West 1. Bicycles and Freedom in Red Cloud and Pittsburgh: Willa Cather’s Early Transformations of Place and Gender in “Tommy, the Unsentimental” Daryl W. Palmer 2. Where Pagodas Rise on Every Hill: Romance as Resistance in “A Son of the Celestial” Michael Gorman 3. The Boxer Rebellion, Pittsburgh’s Missionary Crisis, and “The Conversion of Sum Loo” Timothy W. Bintrim Part 2. Class Action: Retrying “Paul’s Case” 4. Growing Pains: The City behind Cather’s Pittsburgh Classroom Mary Ruth Ryder 5. Big Steel and Class Consciousness in “Paul’s Case” Charmion Gustke 6. “The Most Exciting Attractions Are between Two Opposites That Never Meet”: Willa Cather and Andy Warhol Todd Richardson Part 3. Friendships, Literary and Musical 7. Willa Cather as Translator: The Pittsburgh “French Soirées” Diane Prenatt 8. A Collegial Friendship: Willa Cather and Ethel Herr Litchfield John H. Flannigan 9. Grave and God-Free: Ethelbert Nevin as a Pivotal Historical Source in “The Professor’s Commencement” and The Professor’s House Kimberly Vanderlaan Part 4. Later Stories 10. “I’m Working, I’m Working”: The Industrious Artist of Pittsburgh in Willa Cather’s The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Publications Kelsey Squire 11. Venetian Window: Pittsburgh Glass and Modernist Community in “Double Birthday” Joseph C. Murphy 12. Cather’s Pittsburgh and the Alchemy of Social Class Angela Conrad Epilogue: Why Willa Cather? A Retrospective John J. Murphy Contributors Index
£28.80
University of Nebraska Press Transforming Family
Book SynopsisTransforming Family examines a selection of novels penned by francophone authors who imagine familial aspiration that is decolonial and queer, questioning how family relates to race, gender, class, embodiment, and intersectionality.Trade Review"In addition to the significant contributions this timely work makes to scholarship on the individual authors analyzed therein, this work will also serve as an invaluable resource to anyone interested in literary representations of family alongside feminist, queer, and intersectional theoretical questions pertaining to social class, race, and gender. It will also be applicable to other writers from other cultures who narrate their own experiences of migration."—Adrienne Angelo, Women in French Studies“Frelier steeps us in transnational, transcultural, and transdiasporic family formations with rigor and vulnerability—qualities that together provide a deep immersion in texts and lives. The book takes up ‘family’ not as a vehicle to somewhere else, but as a subject worthy of our attention for its own sake. Reaching across disciplinary chasms, it holds something for every reader seeking to understand families as they are.”—Amy Brainer, author of Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan“An important contribution to French and francophone studies. . . . Given the evolution of family structure and its ever-growing transnational nature, this book is a welcome intervention in our field and beyond. Jocelyn Frelier sheds new light on important works and authors.”—Loïc Bourdeau, editor of Horrible Mothers: Representations across Francophone North AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments: On GratitudeA Technical Note: On Quotes and TranslationsPrelude: On the Origins of this Project, or Literary Criticism as Feminist Autoethnographic WorkIntroduction: Trans- Forming Family: Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone LiteratureInterlude 1: On Maternity, Motherhood, and Mothering1. Mothering beyond Borders: Transnational Queer Mother and Child in Nina Bouraoui’s Garçon manqué (2000)2. Queering Motherhood: Bad Mothers and Murderous Nannies in Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce (2016)Interlude 2: On Paternity, Fatherhood, and Fathering3. Estranged from the Father: Estrangement Bonds and the Terrorist Son in Leïla Sebbar’s Mon cher fils (2009)4. Beginning Again: Transcultural Contact and Fatherhood in Azouz Begag’s Salam Ouessant (2012)Interlude 3: On Horizontal Familial Bonds and Community5. Adoption: Choosing Family and Coming of Age in Fouad Laroui’s Une année chez les Français (2010)6. Brotherhood: Emancipatory Fraternal Bonds in Abdellah Taïa’s Celui qui est digne d’être aimé (2017)Postlude: On Hindsight and FinalesNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
University of Nebraska Press Reading the Contemporary Author
Book SynopsisReaders, literary critics, and theorists alike have long demonstrated an abiding fascination with the author, both as a real person—an artist and creator—and as a theoretical concept that shapes the way we read literary works. Whether anonymous, pseudonymous, or trending on social media, authors continue to be an object of critical and readerly interest. Yet theories surrounding authorship have yet to be satisfactorily updated to register the changes wrought on the literary sphere by the advent of the digital age, the recent turn to autofiction, and the current literary climate more generally. In Reading the Contemporary Author the contributors look back on the long history of theorizing the author and offer innovative new approaches for understanding this elusive figure. Mapping the contours of the vast territory that is contemporary authorship, this collection investigates authorship in the context of narrative genres ranging from memoir and autobiograpTrade Review“A brilliant exploration of new manifestations of authorship in the twenty-first century. Alison Gibbons and Elizabeth King provide a powerful through line that reveals transformations in how we approach the subjectivity and intent of the author amid the digital revolution, the relation to identity politics, complex interactions of fact and fiction, and the role of authorial reflexivity as a process of epistemological and self-examination that extends beyond metafictional play. Through an original outside-in structure, Reading the Contemporary Author is a compelling narratological inquiry into how changing concepts of the author have played a central, mediating role in how we read and interpret the increasingly uncertain thresholds of texts and contemporary life.”—Virginia Newhall Rademacher, author of Derivative Lives: Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative Risk in Contemporary Spanish Narrative“The articles in this valuable work provide a foray into the multifarious nature of contemporary authorship, demonstrating that, although our conception of authorship has taken many forms and will take many more, the author always remains a pivotal, often controversial, site of analysis.”—Marjorie Worthington, author of The Story of “Me”: Contemporary American Autofiction“An important contribution to the knowledge of contemporary authorship but also to contemporary narrativity and contemporary narrative genres, including biofiction, autofiction, memoir, novels featuring novelist narrators, and more.”—Sylvie Patron, author of The Narrator: A Problem in Narrative TheoryTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction: Authorship in Literary Criticism and Narrative TheoryElizabeth King and Alison Gibbons PART I: THE AUTHOR ON THE WORLD STAGE: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS 1. The Public Intellectual on Stage: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieOdile Heynders 2. The Pseudonymic Author and Elena Ferrante’s Evasions of GenderJaclyn Partyka 3. The Permissible Author: Cultural Politics and the Market Economy of the Literary SphereChristopher González PART II: THE AUTHOR IN THE MIRROR: AUTO-AUTHORSHIP, MEMOIR, AND THE NARRATING ‘I’ 4. Authorship and AutobiographyArnaud Schmitt 5. “I wanted to be present to hear her last words”: A Cognitive Approach to Multimodal Autobiographical ElegyAlison Gibbons 6. The Author as a Work of Art: Graphic Memoir, Style, and Authorial AgentsNancy Pedri 7. Radical Realism and Modes of Fictionality in Contemporary Auto/Biographical LiteratureFiona Doloughan PART III: THE AUTHOR ON THE PAGE: REPRESENTATIONS OF AUTHORSHIP IN FICTION 8. Reconstructing the Author through Biofiction’s Anchored ImaginationMichael Lackey and Laura Cernat 9. The Anxiety of Authorship: Novelists as NarratorsPaul Dawson 10. Dead Authors Tell No Tales: The Ailing Author-Character in Contemporary Novels about NovelistsElizabeth King CODA 11. The Author beyond ‘the implied author’: From Postclassical to Postcritical NarratologyStefan Kjerkegaard ContributorsIndex
£48.60
University of Nebraska Press No Place I Would Rather Be
Book SynopsisLegendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered to be among the greatest baseball writers. He brings a fan's love, a fiction writer's eye, and an essayist's sensibility to the game. No other baseball writer has a through line quite like Angell's: born in 1920, he was an avid fan of the game by the Depression era, when he watched Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig hit home runs at Yankee Stadium. He began writing about baseball in 1962 and continued through the decades, blogging about baseball's postseasons until his death in 2022. No Place I Would Rather Be tells the story of Angell's contribution to sportswriting, including his early short stories, pieces for the New Yorker, autobiographical essays, seven books, and the common threads that run through them. His work reflects rapidly changing mores as well as evolving forces on and off the field, reacting to a half century of cultural turmoil, shifts in trends and professional attitudes of ballplayers and executives, and a coTrade Review"Of the recent books I have read about baseball, Joe Bonomo's book chronicling the career of Roger Angell, No Place I Would Rather Be, is one of the best, not only for Bonomo's considerable writing skills, but also for his compelling portrayal of Angell's erudition and unique focus on the 'lesser and sweeter moments' of the sport he loves."—Jill Brennan O'Brien, America Magazine"[No Place I Would Rather Be] offers a look behind the scenes of a remarkable career in a changing field."—New York Post"In 2014, Roger Angell was in Cooperstown at the Baseball Hall of Fame to receive the J. G. Taylor Spink Award "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing." Joe Bonomo's book offers an infinite number of reasons why this honor was richly deserved. It is a book worth reading."—Richard Crepeau, New York Journal of Books"I’m nowhere near a Roger Angell completist, and there’s no real good reason for it. The author, who hangs around here under the name “bonomo,” says early on that it’s not a biography of the legendary New Yorker baseball writer, and that’s true. But it’s kind of a biography of Angell’s process, in that Bonomo treats it as a living being, shaped by experiences that ordinarily wouldn’t be public knowledge."—Jim Margalus, Sox Machine"A rich adventure."—Tom Hoffarth, fartheroffthewall.com“The game of baseball best represents our country’s soul, and no one has chronicled its beauty better than Roger Angell. With only class and eloquence, Roger’s insights have taught us all—starting with sport and extending to humanity.”—Joe Torre, Hall of Famer and four-time World Championship manager of the New York Yankees and MLB’s chief baseball officer“Joe Bonomo’s immensely enjoyable book examines Angell’s baseball writing through the decades, shedding welcome light on the forces and events (both in the game and in Angell’s life) that shaped him into the greatest baseball writer of the post–World War II era. It’s an absolute must for any Angell fan and for anyone who digs great baseball writing in general.”—Dan Epstein, author of Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s“Roger Angell is an American treasure. Fans of baseball and the craft of writing will enjoy this inside look at one of the all-time best.”—Tom Verducci, author of The Yankee Years and The Cubs Way“Joe Bonomo has curated an enjoyable journey through the career and work of Roger Angell, the godfather to generations of outsiders who set out to bring a fresh perspective to baseball coverage. If you’ve ever immersed yourself in Angell’s prose and wondered where his incisive wit, ear for dialogue, and attention to detail came from, or wished to trace the development of recurring themes throughout his oeuvre, No Place I Would Rather Be is well worth your time.”—Jay Jaffe, author of The Cooperstown Casebook and a senior writer for FanGraphs.comTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Trying Out Good News Forever Delay on the Field You Want to Laugh, You Want More, You Want It to Be Over Notes Bibliography Index
£16.14
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Joan Didion
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£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Madeleine LEngle
Book SynopsisPresents the first collection of interviews with the beloved children's book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. The thirteen interviews collected here reveal an amazing feat of authorial self-fashioning, as L'Engle transformed from novelist to children's author to Christian writer.
£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Louisiana Poets A Literary Guide
Book SynopsisFrom the early poetry to work crafted in the present day, Louisiana has nurtured and exported a rich and diverse poetic tradition. In Louisiana Poets, Catharine Savage Brosman and Olivia McNeely Pass assess the achievements of Louisiana poets from the past hundred years who deserve both public notice and careful critical examination.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House
Book SynopsisOffers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published The First Four Years, her letters, journalism, and autobiography. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, and other biographical materials.
£27.96
University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Joan Didion
Book SynopsisJoan Didion (b. 1934) is an American icon. Her essays, particularly those in Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, have resonated in American culture to a degree unmatched over the past half century. Two generations of writers have taken her as the measure of what it means to write personal essays. No one writes about California, the sixties, media narratives, cultural mythology, or migraines without taking Didion into account. She has also written five novels; several screenplays with her husband, John Gregory Dunne; and three late-in-life memoirs, including The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights, which have brought her a new wave of renown.Conversations with Joan Didion features seventeen interviews with the author, spanning decades, continents, and genres. Didion reflects on her childhood in Sacramento; her time at Berkeley (both as a student and later as a visiting professor), in New York, and in Hollywood; her marriage to Dunne; and of course her writing
£22.50
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Southern Literature Cold War Culture and the
Book SynopsisExamines southern literature and the culture within the United States from the period just before the Cold War through the civil rights movement to show how this literature won a significant place in Cold War culture and shaped America through the time of The Hillbilly Elegy.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with John Banville
Book SynopsisThe first interview collection with this esteemed writer. The book includes eighteen interviews that reflect on nearly five decades of work, from his first book, Long Lankin, to his novel Mrs. Osmond and memoir, Time Pieces.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry
Book SynopsisSpanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her early death from cancer in January 1965, Lorraine Hansberry's short stint in the public eye changed the landscape of American theatre. Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry is the first volume to collect all of her substantive interviews in one place.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi In Faulkners Shadow A Memoir
Book SynopsisWhat happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century? Lawrence Wells, author of In Faulkner's Shadow: A Memoir, fills this lively tale with stories that answer just that.Trade ReviewIn Faulkner’s Shadow is a rich memoir about a growing arts community, against which Wells’s marriage to the firecracker niece of William Faulkner, one of the great authors of the twentieth century, is set. Oxford could have easily rested on its artistic heritage, but thanks to boosters like Dean and Larry Wells, it continues to support a vibrant community of writers like those who light up these stories.
£21.21
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sylvia Plath Day by Day Volume 1 19321955
Book SynopsisEach new biography of Sylvia Plath has offered insight and sources with which to measure Plath’s life and influence. Sylvia Plath Day by Day, a two-volume series, offers a distillation of this data without the inherent bias of a narrative.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Eye That Is Language
Book SynopsisDaniele Pitavy-Souques was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays, Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty’s view of the world and her international literary import, challenging previous readings of Welty’s fiction, memoir, and photographs in illuminating ways.
£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Eye That Is Language
Book SynopsisDaniele Pitavy-Souques was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays, Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty’s view of the world and her international literary import, challenging previous readings of Welty’s fiction, memoir, and photographs in illuminating ways.
£26.06
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Critical Essays on William Faulkner
Book SynopsisPresents scholarship by noted Faulkner studies scholar Robert W. Hamblin. The twenty-one essays present a variety of approaches to Faulkner’s work. While acknowledging Faulkner as the quintessential southern writer - particularly in his treatment of race - the essays examine his work in relation to American and even international contexts.
£78.40
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Critical Essays on William Faulkner
Book SynopsisPresents scholarship by noted Faulkner studies scholar Robert W. Hamblin. The twenty-one essays present a variety of approaches to Faulkner’s work. While acknowledging Faulkner as the quintessential southern writer - particularly in his treatment of race - the essays examine his work in relation to American and even international contexts.
£26.06
University Press of Mississippi Blockheads Beagles and Sweet Babboos
Book SynopsisSheds new light on the past importance, ongoing significance, and future relevance of a comics series that millions adore: Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts. More specifically, the book examines a fundamental feature of the series: its core cast of characters.
£73.80
University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Beth Henley
Book SynopsisWith roots in the American South, Beth Henley has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. These interviews range from 1981, just before she won the Pulitzer Prize, to 2020 and cover nearly forty years of a creative life, which, as Henley remarks, is ""such a life worth living: to be in tune with the creative process.
£73.80
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Beth Henley
Book SynopsisWith roots in the American South, Beth Henley has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. These interviews range from 1981, just before she won the Pulitzer Prize, to 2020 and cover nearly forty years of a creative life, which, as Henley remarks, is ""such a life worth living: to be in tune with the creative process.
£19.00
University Press of Mississippi Faulkners Families
Book SynopsisFamily played an outsized role in both William Faulkner’s life and writings, often in deeply problematic ways. The dozen essays featured in this collection approach Faulkner’s many families - actual and imagined - as especially revealing windows to his work and his world.
£73.80
